Actors

Not every celebrity can trace their polish back to a small Nigerian town and speak about it with genuine warmth. Uti Nwachukwu can. "Growing up in Ughelli was really great," he has said in interviews, adding that even now, thinking about…

Most comedians spend their careers trying to get people to notice them. Benjamin Bankole Bello — better known to audiences across Britain, TikTok, and large swathes of the internet as President Obonjo, Supreme Leader of the Lafta Republic —…

There's a particular kind of actor Nollywood produces once in a while — the type whose face alone does half the work before he utters a single line. Joseph Momodu is that kind of actor. Tall, composed, and carrying the quiet authority of…

There is a particular kind of creative person who was never going to fit comfortably inside a single national identity, a single artistic discipline, or a single professional category. Uwa Iduozee is precisely that kind of person. He is…

Before Bolanle Ninalowo became one of Nollywood's most recognisable and sought-after actors, he was an accountant in Chicago. Before that, he was a Muslim boy growing up in Ikorodu, Lagos, the fifth child in a family of eight, helping his…

Some careers are built on momentum. Others are built on conviction. Patrick Rupherford Doyle belongs firmly in the second category. For more than four decades, he has navigated Nigerian broadcasting and acting not with the frantic energy of…